After recent wildfires in the US, like the fires in California, there is now a risk of dangerous water quality contamination. According to this story, water sheds may be contaminated making a critical need for more water quality monitoring systems.

Scientists don’t know exactly what combination of toxic organic compounds, metal mixtures, ash, debris, cars, industrial chemicals, paints, plastics, and other miscellaneous articles have found their way into our watersheds.

Rain and precipitation after wild fires have also caused mudslides and made roads impassable. This is another side of the wild fire issue, where flood warning systems and IoT sensors monitoring water levels are required to keep families and communities safe.

In the southern part of the USA, around Louisiana, there are also dangerous water quality issues. Some folks have to drive for many miles to wash their clothes, do laundry, and buy bottled water since the water at their homes has been making their families sick for months.

Is flooding becoming more intense and dangerous? Heavy rains and flood water levels killed multiple people in Australia a few days ago. The city had a month’s worth of rain in less than 2 hours. What do you think about that?

How do we help? Fortunately, today’s water monitoring systems are more affordable, effective, and easy to deploy. Cloud-based IoT sensor monitoring software makes it simple to verify when everything is ok in our environment or when smart cities need to send out alerts and early warnings.

Thank you for visiting and reading. If you’ve got a tip, water monitoring news, articles you’d like to share, or have any questions about systems for monitoring water, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with me at Info@Valarm.net.

Where does our earth’s water come from? New research shows that our planet’s water might have come from gas and asteroid material that was left over from the formation of the Sun. Have a look at this article for more on the research findings.

Flooding around the world is becoming more intense. Water levels are rising and causing damage and destruction to various communities.

Want to know what’s currently going on with storms, in real-time? Now water levels sensors are sending you faster information about storms.

In this CBS news interview, Dr. Derek Loftis discusses how coastal Virginia, Hampton Roads, and the area around Chesapeake Bay are at risk for dangerous water levels. Derek also shows and explains how local authorities, schools, government agencies, educational institutions, Smart Cities, and other organizations have installed flood warning systems with Industrial IoT sensors to effectively save lives, time, and money. It’s exciting to see how today’s monitoring technology protects you and your family’s health and wellbeing.

As Dr. Loftis says in the story above, their goal is more resiliency for dangerous water levels and being prepared for natural disasters like floods. Thanks to institutions and groups like NIST, Venture Smarter, Valarm, the Smart Regions Initiative, and NRDC, additional flood monitoring systems are continuously being deployed.

You can see why high water levels introduce risks to your family. Low water levels can also affect your health and wellbeing. Low water levels are causing chaos around the world, like in Germany where the transportation and agriculture industries are suffering huge losses.

Water Monitoring is quite important for our future as humans on this planet. Not only water levels – monitoring water quality is critical as populated urban areas like those in Newark, New Jersey, are giving their citizens water infused with chemicals that cause cancer. Is clean water one of your basic rights as a human? Dirty water certainly harms you and your family’s lives. For these reasons among others, effective water quality monitoring systems have been deployed this year in states like Pennsylvania to keep the public safe.

That’s the fascinating news about water that we wanted to share with you in this story. Hopefully it is useful for you and your community if you’re looking to help make our world a better place. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch with me at Info@Valarm.net if you’ve got any questions, suggestions, comments, or just simply want to say howdy.

Citizens and scientists are asking for more water monitoring. Why do we need more monitoring? This example is sparked by the fact that the red tide has arrived as a surprise on the coasts and beaches of Florida.

Yes it was likely after a hurricane, but why didn’t they know when and receive an alert before it arrived? This is 1 of many reasons why there’s a need for early warning systems and more remote monitoring with water sensors.

As this article describes, water monitoring may be dull, however it’s absolutely necessary to keep track of all the numbers for making decisions that make sense. Specifically, groundwater well monitoring and observation techniques are needed for effective water resources management.

On the east coast of the US, more and more communities and schools are learning first hand the need for better water monitoring systems. Water quality emergencies continue to emerge and families need to boil water to keep their health safe. As NPR reports, people all over the country are asking for more information about drinking water, since toxins from wells may be negatively affecting our health.

Smart cities in the states have deployed water monitoring systems for their citizens. Have you done this for you and your community?

Here are customer success stories about water monitoring systems that use Industrial IoT sensors in the USA and around the world. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch with me at Info@Valarm.net if you’ve got any comments, suggestions, or questions.

What time is it? It’s Hurricane season in the states and evacuations and warning are already underway.

A lot of the east coast, especially the southern part, in the USA has been evacuated as Hurricane Florence is about to land. It’s a category 4 hurricane according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC) with wind gusts of 130 mph and getting stronger.

It’s a big one, perhaps the size of the entire state of North Carolina. According to the New York Times, the interstate freeways and roads are being reversed for one-way traffic only in the direction that people get out of the dangerous areas.

Water quality is safer in some communities than others. How is Your water for you and your family?

Around the US, communities near Santa Barbara, California, have reported clean water that meets or exceeds water quality standards. Although, with water in lakes and swimming holes, the CDC cautions you and your family to take care.

Years after the Flint, Michigan, water quality crisis, the doctor who exposed the problems now has a book about the dangerous water events. Even today, communities in New York have had high water demand leading to problems with dirty, brown water flowing out of the taps that is dangerous to consume. And as the next school year starts, schools in Flint will be using water jugs instead of water fountains.

Fortunately, today’s technologies, like Industrial IoT sensors, give government agencies and water authorities an easy and cost-effective way to monitor water levels and water quality.

For example, communities in Pennsylvania have installed new water quality monitoring systems to continuously monitor water factors, like conductivity / resistivity, in real-time. These systems help water management districts, municipalities, and smart cities to better serve citizens and keep families safe.

As water becomes a more important resource for you and your community, our world grows its needs for effective water monitoring systems. Whether it’s water quality, water levels, water usage, or anything else, we’re here to share our experiences with our customers in order to help your organization save lives, as well as your time and your money.

What’s going on in your water world? Here are a few curious stories that we recently found intriguing.

Is California moving towards better water management? See this write-up about 2 new bills that change water policy and confront issues like water wars, supplies, recycled water, changing climate, droughts, and how to make compromises with stakeholders and administrations.

How is water management related to blockchain technology? Have a look at this story for more on how blockchain can help water resources management and distribution.

In Wisconsin, the US EPA and the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) are carefully performing environmental monitoring and measuring air quality, as well as monitoring water quality (full story here) , after fires and explosions at an oil refinery that caused evacuations.

Measuring, managing, and monitoring water resources is a critical challenge.

It’s been 4 years since the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Dangerous levels of lead contaminated the water supply after the city switched to using the local river as a water source. Meanwhile, in other parts of Michigan, permits have been granted for increases of water extraction for bottled water plants.

Who controls the water cycle? The latest science research says that vegetation regulates and controls the future of our water cycle. Vegetation plays a more critical role than we may have thought, when on water stress and our water resources.

New water testing equipment in San Diego, California, is being installed to have automatic, precise, real-time water measurement readings. These are in response to citizens complaining that they were being charged and billed for more water than they were actually using.

Do you use less water when there’s a drought and water levels are down? Since the California drought emergency has been called off by an executive order, are communities back to using as much water as before the drought? This story has more about how folks may have become lazy when it comes to water conservation, and what this means for you and your family.

Water Well Management Systems are critical for you and your family to maintain happy and healthy lives. How do organization effectively monitor water wells, pumps, and water levels? How can natural disasters like hurricanes and flooding affect aquifer and water well health? That’s what we’ll talk about in this write-up.

Hurricane Harvey caused widespread damage in the US, especially in Texas. Local universities and educational institutions like Texas A&M are collaborating to offer free water well testing to private well owners affected by hurricane flood waters.

Since floodwater can have upstream substances like sewage from wastewater treatment plants or flooded septic systems, it’s critical to test flooded water wells before using wells for drinking, cooking delicious meals, or anything else. Many residents in various communities have had private water wells damaged by flooding and needed new tanks and water well systems. Fluorocarbons used at airports and for fire fighting foams can also end up in water wells and reek havoc on communities like this one in Minnesota.

This recent study has called attention to the fact that more and more water systems in the U.S. are violating health standards. Being cost-effective with your water management is key, as damaged water wells can cost thousands of dollars for government agencies, businesses, companies, and other organizations. However, new water management systems can save you millions of dollars a year as demonstrated here. You might now be wondering…

How Do You Effectively Manage and Monitor Your Water Well Systems?

You may already know that monitoring water wells and levels requires seamless integration of sensors like pressure transducers, pumps, and level sensors made by various hardware manufacturers like Flowline, In-Situ, McCrometer, EKM Metering, EnoScientific, and Senix.

As you see in the photos here, production groundwater wells are effectively managed and monitored remotely with maps and webpage dashboards.

Managing water wells can be done from anywhere, and at any time. The water monitoring systems stay online 24/7/365 with mains power like 110V, or solar panel power, to provide you real-time information and alerts. You can quickly and easily answer questions like:

Are your water well pumps active?

What’s the water level in each of your wells?

How many gallons per minute (gpm) are flowing through the flow meters right now?

What’s the total water usage – How many total gallons have flowed through your flowmeters?

What’s your pump head room? Is your pump headroom at a dangerous or safe level?

What’s the depth to water and how much water is above your water level sensors, e.g., pressure transducers?

That’s your quick summary overview of the latest in the world of water well monitoring systems, and how you can best manage your water wells.

Questions?

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Are flooding risks getting worse? According to this New York Times article that’s an affirmative yes, water levels are rising and chemical sites are in the path.

What does this mean for toxic spills like those that happened in Texas during Hurricane Harvey and released lye from chemicals plants? Floods also cause emergency disasters like benzene escaping from Ohio refineries and phosphoric acid leaking from Florida fertilizer plants.

More and more scientific reports claim that flooding will worsen in the USA as a result of global climate change, rising sea levels, as well as increased hurricanes and coastal storms.

New FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) maps feature updates on flood insurance rates. This story describes the results and actions to take based on this knowledge in areas around New Orleans, Louisiana.

And on the other side of the country, there are flood advisories in effect for Oahu, Hawai’i. The National Weather Service has issued flash flood warnings.

The increasing risk of flooding could also be due to decades of urban development, like office parks, roads, malls and neighborhoods growing even farther apart. This PBS story discusses how decisions by developers, individuals, local, state, and federal government have made for more flood risks over the decades in the areas around Houston, Texas.

What Can You and We Do About Growing Flood Risks and Rising Water Levels?

Smart Cities in the USA, like those in Virginia on the East Coast, continue to deploy more flood warning systems.

These monitoring systems measure water levels of rivers, oceans, coasts, lakes, and other water bodies by deploying level sensors on bridges, marinas, beaches, and other locations.

These IoT system devices use ultrasonic and radar sensors to measure real-time water levels and upload readings to Tools.Valarm.net.

Flood monitoring systems are rapidly deployable. They are quite flexible since IoT water level sensor information can be uploaded to the cloud via mobile cell network, ethernet, WiFi or other internet connectivity options.

The water level monitoring systems are powered by the means that makes the most sense for the scenario, whether that’s standard 110V mains power or solar panel power.

Questions?

Thank you for reading about our increasing flooding risks and what we can do about dangerous water levels.

Please don’t hesitate to get in touch with me at Info@Valarm.net if you’ve got any questions about remotely monitoring sensors, flood warning systems, water wells, flow meters, water level telemetry, or anything else related to Industrial IoT.

You probably know that your water is a precious resource. You and your family can’t live long without water. We’ve been in the trenches, working closely with our customers, to learn through years of experience – what’s the most effective way to remotely monitor water and other sensors? Below we’ll share some recent industry news that you’ll likely find helpful.

Is your water safe? Pipeline companies need to remove diesel contaminated slurry from quarries near water wells in Ohio. Many of these projects costs billions of dollars to mitigate after violations have been cited by the Environmental Protection Agency. Do you think any of these dumpings, like slurry for lubricating equipment, go unnoticed?

Some U.S. counties and towns have had to declare a state of emergency and ask for emergency funding after a disaster caused them to lose their water wells. And on the other side of the globe, the world’s most ambitious water transfer program is under way in China. However, this water way aqueduct is not enough according to this Bloomberg analysis.

Where does this leave us today when it comes to your water crisis? Effective water monitoring systems are crucial for proper management of our precious water resources.

Today’s Industrial IoT and remote sensor monitoring technologies give you, your teams, and your organization the most cost-effective ways to save your money and time with automatic water monitoring systems.